6th Friday the movie almost all my friends have been waiting for manly because of the super popular song emotional atyachar and secondly because of abhay deol's acting considering everyone loved oye lucky..!!
And i was completely zapped when i was attending my lectures i got a text from Neeti saying DEV D got 5 stars in the TIMES OF INDIA...!!.. i was like..!..woohh..!!..dats awesome!..this movie has to be something.
Luckily everything that day in college got cancelled.. and i was free and the entire built up was only helping me and pushing me to watch DEV D.
So there we were to watch a 5 star movie 1 pm show in da afternoon..
So how was it?..is it no smoking look alike or is it one more of abhay deol's classic or was it completely a trash..!!
In my opinion DEV D was nothing but mediocre and an ordinary flick.
The excitement was always there with the mordern version of DEVDAS.. while dev over here as in the srk devdas is arrogant self obsessed rich spoilt brat with a silver spoon and calls his dad by his name " sattu". Paro on the contrary is shown to be bold, beautiful at places,with instant repartee and new age chandigarh woman who doesnt mind sending nude pictures of herself for DEV. Such is the love that she has been saving her virginity and becomes a sex starving female with raging hormones
an actual mordern day paro.. eh?
Enter lenny aka chanda the chandramukhi of the movie who's the victim of a MMS SCANDAL taken inspiration from the dps case earlier.
Life takes a u-turn for her where she faces lewd remarks and humiliation and is isolated by friends and family. She has someone who gives her an option to study by day and play the ultimate fantasy for men by night.
The story line is really thin and nothing much to look for like the other DEVDAS's.. but still the creativity in the movie the character sketch of the three characters is rock solid.
Anurag Kashyap did manage to do his homework over here.
But that is dominated by the slow pace at which the movie runs.
Pre-interval portions do manage to impress you and the punjabi backdrop is funny at places with amazing dialogues but the other half of the movie has nothing but DEV running and hunting for alcohol, stalks paro by night,lives on marijuana and in the end CHANDA.
The entire narration has been done by close to 18 songs in the movie which keeps on coming at regular intervals only if they would have been better placed would have had a better impact cos after sometime they start irritating you.
Some of the songs that are no doubt worth listening are emotional atyachar , pardesi, duniya,nayan tarse. Excellent work.
All in all its Abhay deol and the two confident newcomers being the saving grace in this really ok but creative movie.
The camera work, cinematography , the delhi night life and red light area have been shown brilliantly.
The dialogues are great too.
Anurag Kashyap is an off beat director with a different understanding and out of the box thinking of his own. Critics did strike a chord with him in this piece.. i and my friends dint.
It is for sure new-age bollywood cinema but not entertaining.
When i was a child there were some movies that i really wanted to see but my parents would come and tell me.." its not for you."
This is one movie where i would tell my parents "ye aapke liye nahi hai"
Trust me if you're at all planning to see it with your parents it will be damn uncomfortable and heights of awkwardness.
The movie is a thumbs down from me. Watch Srk devdas again rather than this.
RATINGS : 2.5/5
